Mulan Featurette Explores the Film’s Sensational Stunts

Director Niki Caro’s upcoming Mulan looks quite simply ravishing. Now a new featurette focusing on the live-action remake‘s epic stunts highlights why so many folks are excited about Caro’s film.

You had to know that Mulan would be an action-packed movie. The story is centered on a young woman (Yifei Liu) who disguises herself in order to take her father’s place in the upcoming war with China. Yet what’s revealed in this featurette is just how technically ambitious these fight sequences are...

Behold the Buzz-Worthy Trailer for Jordan Peele’s Candyman

Now this is how you generate buzz.

Apologies for the pun (not really), but the official trailer for Candyman, co-written and produced by Jordan Peele, is here, and bees play a fairly significant part. Peele’s “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 original, directed by rising star Nia DaCosta (Little Woods), looks straight-up fantastic.

We now know that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Aquaman, ...

No Time To Die Will be The Longest James Bond Movie Ever

It looks like Daniel Craig’s last mission as her Majesty’s most lethal 007 will be the longest in history. CNET reports that No Time To Die is a 2 hour, 43-minute affair, topping Sam Mendes 2015 Spectre by 15 minutes. That is quite a lot of time to die, as just about everyone is now joking.

Everything we’ve seen and heard about No Time To Die has us excited,...

Monster Wrestlers Reign Supreme in First Rumble Trailer

Will Arnett’s track record with voicing non-human animated characters is, to put it mildly, excellent. He just wrapped up voicing the title character in Netflix’s consistently excellent Bojack Horseman, and now Arnett’s vocal talents are being deployed in Paramount Picture’s new animated feature Rumble, which is centered around the genuinely fantastic conceit of monster wrestling. Rumble invites us into a world where monster wrestling is a global phenomenon, and the monsters who get into the ring are major superstars...

Director Colin Trevorrow Reveals Jurassic World 3′s Title

And now we’ve got the official title of Jurassic World 3. After months of exciting casting news, a fun Jurassic Park short by director Colin Trevorrow, and hints from the rebooted franchise’s stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, production has officially begun and a proper title has been revealed. Trevorrow shared the news, and an image from the set, via Twitter:

Day One#JurassicWorld pic.twitter.com/UnQIUFwJ3t

— Colin Trevorrow (@colintrevorrow) February 25,...

Hope for a New Era of Sustainable Filmmaking at Film Goes Green at the Berlinale

On Friday during the run of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, a diverse audience gathered at the law offices of Morrison Foerster for a panel on green filmmaking, hosted by the entertainment firm and the Motion Picture Association. “Our studios recognize that sustainability is business, and business is sustainability,” remarked MPA chairman and CEO Charles H. Rivkin, who opened the evening’s event. The panelists represented professions across the film industry as well as niche areas like electric car racing and futuristic city development,...

Here’s Your First Look at Jordan Peele and Nia DaCosta’s Candyman

Reasons to be excited for director Nia DaCosta’s upcoming Candyman reboot, in no particular order. DaCosta herself, a rising star directing her biggest feature yet. Your screenwriters are Jordan Peele (!!) and Win Rosenfeld (executive producer of Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman), based on the characters first created by horror legend Clive Barker and writer/director Bernard Rose. Then there’s the cast—Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Aquaman, Watchmen), Colman Domingo (Lincoln,...

Review Roundup: Elisabeth Moss Shines in Timely The Invisible Man Reboot

This Friday, writer/director Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man hits theaters, a reboot of Universal Pictures’ classic 1933 monster movie, starring Elisabeth Moss as, Cecilia Kass, a woman being stalked by a man nobody can see. Cecilia flees an abusive relationship with the brutal scientist Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) in the middle of the night. Far from escaping Adrian’s sociopathy, Cecilia now finds herself in an increasingly terrifying situation. Shortly after she leaves him, she’s told that Oliver committed suicide...

No Time to Die Director Cary Joji Fukunaga on Bond’s Most Dangerous Mission

If you weren’t already hyped up about the 25th James Bond film No Time to Die, you might need one final shot of adrenalin. To aid you in that effort is writer/director Cary Joji Fukunaga, who narrates a brand new No Time to Die video.

Fukunaga works from a script he wrote with Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Scott Z. Burns, and Emmy-winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and in this new video he’s gives us the lay of the land,...

Simon Frederick on the History of Black Cinema in his Doc They’ve Gotta Have Us

In They’ve Gotta Have Us now streaming on Netflix, British photographer-turned filmmaker Simon Frederick chronicles the history of Black Cinema by sitting down with some of the people who made that history. Produced by BBC Two and Ava DuVernay‘s ARRAY company, the three-part documentary series blends archival footage with dozens of interviews to survey eight decades of American filmmaking.

“I wanted to hear about the struggles and the successes, but I also wanted to hear the human stories in between,”...

Venom 2 Set Photos Reveal Tom Hardy’s Return as Eddie Brock

We’ve got some official set photos from Venom 2, and they show Tom Hardy’s head-devouring alien symbiote having a laugh with his nemesis, the other head-devouring alien symbiote Carnage, played by Woody Harrelson. Okay, these new images, from photographer Greg Williams, give us a glimpse of what appears to be a very fun set, rather than stills from the film itself. Hardy returns as Eddie Brock, the reporter-turned-antihero Venom, and the sequel is being helmed by the multitalented Andy Serkis...

It’s Monster Mayhem in A Quiet Place: Part II “Fight” Teaser

What we’ve seen so far from John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place: Part II has been very promising. Krasinski’s follow-up to his 2018 smash hit expands the world of monsters vs humans we got only a glimpse of in the original. The first film was squarely focused on the Abbott family, led by Lee (Krasinski) and Evelyn (Emily Blunt), who were doing their level best to keep their children Marcus and Regan (Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds,...

Watch Billie Eilish Sing No Time to Die at the BRIT Awards

Billie Eilish‘s gorgeous, haunting theme song for No Time to Die is the type of slow-burn beauty we’ve come to expect from the young superstar. Eilish performed the song at the BRIT Awards in London, and we’ve embedded the performance for your viewing pleasure. Eilish joins a long, prestigious list of musical superstars to write and perform a theme song for a Bond film. She follows luminaries such as Adele (Skyfall),...

No Time to Die: How Cary Fukunaga & Phoebe Waller-Bridge Crafted a Role for Ana de Armas

There are so many reasons to be excited about No Time to Die. It’s the last time we’ll get to see Daniel Craig as her Majesty’s most lethal super-spy, James Bond. The cast and crew surrounding Craig are phenomenally talented. Co-writer and director Cary Joji Fukunaga works from a script he wrote with Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Scott Z. Burns, and Emmy-winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

That writing team brought back some of Bond’s old allies,...

Writer/Director Rashaad Ernesto Green on his Bracing Love Story Premature

When Rashaad Ernesto Green and Zora Howard sat down to write a feature that Howard would star in and Green would direct, the pair already knew it would be a love story. No, Howard and Green are not a couple; they worked together on Green’s debut feature Gun Hill Road (2011) and on his 2008 short Premature. The two artists simply wanted to create “what we felt was missing in the current cinematic climate especially with relation to black stories,” says Green...

Portrait of a Lady on Fire Writer/Director Celine Sciamma on her Masterpiece

French writer-director Céline Sciamma, whose first three features, Water Lilies (2007), Tomboy (2011) and Girlhood (2014), established her unique voice with visually compelling depictions of coming of age, gender identity and the intimacy of girls’ relationships, has created a masterpiece with her fourth film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. A sumptuous lesbian romance set in France in 1760, Portrait of a Lady on Fire won the best screenplay award and the Queer Palm at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and a host of year-end critics’ accolades...

Writer/Director Brenda Chapman on her Beguiling new Feature Come Away

Oscar-winning animation artist, writer, and director Brenda Chapman had never considered doing live-action before she read the script for Come Away, which came from first-time screenwriter Marissa Kate Goodhill. She was taken by the story, which is a “what if” tale, suggesting the origins for both Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland come from Victorian brother and sister Peter and Alice (Jordan Nash and Keira Chansa) who use their imaginations, in individual ways, to soothe their grief after the loss of their brother David...

The Batman Test Footage Reveals First Look at Robert Pattinson as Caped Crusader

We’ve got the very first look at Robert Pattinson as Batman, folks. Writer/director Matt Reeves has revealed this glimpse of Pattinson in the full cape and cowl. What’s more, included in the moody peek is a snippet of Michael Giacchino’s score. The video might be brief, but we’re guessing the internet is going to be fairly (read; intensely) vocal about this new-look Batman. Hard to argue that Pattison and his lantern jaw don’t fit the Batman cowl perfectly. You’ll also see the new Batman symbol on the costume’s chest—the current theory is that it’s made up of the gun that killed his parents (!!) If you weren’t at least a little interested in Reeves’...

Paul Feig Reveals his Universal Monster Movie

Paul Feig loves taking genre films and making them his own. His most recent film, Last Christmas, was, as the title suggests, a Christmas comedy with a touch of magic. He’s obviously a veteran in the comedy genre in general (Bridesmaids was an instant classic), as well as the comedy-action world (Spy was a delight), the sci-fi comedy (the Ghostbusters reboot) and more...

The Green Knight Trailer Reveals Dev Patel in David Lowrey’s Medieval Fantasy

Take director David Lowery (A Ghost Story) and add star Dev Patel as Sir Gawain in a Medieval fantasy, and add powerhouse production studio A24 and you’ve got the makings for something potentially great. Thus we’ve got The Green Knight, in which Lowery takes on the story of  King Arthur’s dangerously headstrong nephew who sets off on an epic quest to confront the titular Green Knight, a colossal green-skinned menace. A24 has released the first trailer and,...